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  • noun Plural form of yanker.

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Examples

  • Perhaps someone who hasn't been banned over there yet might leave a short comment, asking said panty-yankers to address this.

    Who are you ... CC 2009

  • Heartland Porn Moms: In the mainstream media, only CNBC's intrepid reporter Melissa Lee has the yankers to uncover the fiscal collapse of the porn industry.

    Patrick Sauer: Ask Not What the American Porn Industry Can Do For You... 2009

  • If these yankers were democrats they'd all be under indictment or at least polygraphed by now.

    The Chimes at Midnight 2004

  • I wouldn't mind these yankers so much but they are a pitiful naive' lot in so many ugly ways.

    The Chimes at Midnight 2004

  • It applauded every descent upon a Socialist or pacifist meeting, not because it was very hotly in favour of war -- in fact, it was lukewarm about war, and resisted all efforts to heat it up until overwhelming swarms of yokel-yankers were turned upon it -- but because it was in favour of a safe and stimulating form of rough-house, with the police helping instead of hindering.

    The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind George Jean Nathan 1920

  • For 12 years you rolled with new houses and stupid cats and drooling dogs and loud little tail-yankers, and yet you never changed.

    Huzzah! 2009

  • Heartland Porn Moms: In the mainstream media, only CNBC's intrepid reporter Melissa Lee has the yankers to uncover the fiscal collapse of the porn industry.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • I just hope that the very few sane Republicans left in this country remember how she got pwned by a couple of French-Canadian crank yankers pretending to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy

    Brilliant at Breakfast 2008

  • I plan on hiring the dirtiest motherf*ckers -- I'm talking on gougers, scratchers, yankers -- that way if anyone wants to step to me, they'll have to say 'you know what, I value my gonads, I'm going to leave him alone.'

    Jacqueline Colette Prosper: Celebrities and Personal Security with Christian Finnegan 2008

  • years later, my fascination for discvoery is still here. i still tune in.. only in hotel rooms! but it has become the only thing i watch in college besides crank yankers and the occasional south park on comedy!

    Archive Monday: Destroy, Deny, Desire floreta 2009

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